US · guidance
CMS Pub. 100-02, ch. 7, § 40.1
Skilled Nursing Care
A3-3118.1, HHA-205.1
To be covered as skilled nursing services, the services must require the skills of a
registered nurse, or a licensed practical (vocational) nurse under the supervision of a
registered nurse, must be reasonable and necessary to the treatment of the patient's illness
or injury as discussed in §40.1.1, below, and must be intermittent as discussed in §40.1.3.
Coverage of skilled nursing care does not turn on the presence or absence of a patient’s
potential for improvement from the nursing care, but rather on the patient’s need for
skilled care.
History
(Rev. 179, Issued: 01-14-14, Effective: 01-07-14, Implementation: 01-07-14)
Provenance
- Source
- cms.gov
- Retrieved
- 2026-08-25
- Edition
- iom-2026-08-25
- Content hash
630f2cedcda9c5dafc732491200a44ed3c50bd5e76df7281aaa6b5b5053b96c0
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